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CREMONA – About 20 residents attended a public hearing in Cremona on Oct. 16 regarding a proposal to remove the municipal reserve designation for two parcels in the village. The parcels are 1.06-hectare and 1.

CARSTAIRS - At their recent regular council meeting, Carstairs councillors passed a motion regarding the Alberta First Responder Radio Communications System (AFRRCS).

Flu season has arrived. “Typically November, December, January are the most intensive months,” said Dr. Digby Horne, medical officer of health for the central zone of Alberta Health Services (AHS).

CARSTAIRS - Town council and staff received a positive review from the Jordan Cleland Consulting Corp. regarding the town's social media at the regular council meeting on Oct. 9.

The Mountain View County municipal planning commission has approved a subdivision application to create an agricultural parcel for the purpose of growing genetically perfected blue spruce trees south of Sundre.

DIDSBURY - The Didsbury Fire Department will be welcoming back several of the previously-resigned firefighters, according to a press release from the town dated Oct. 17.

Dozens of researchers and dignitaries from across Canada recently attended a three-day conference at Olds College. The Oct. 14-16 Tech-Access Workshop drew officials from 30 technology access centres (TACs).

The provincial government needs to provide towns and counties with more funding to deal with projected costs associated with the legalization of cannabis, according to associations representing rural and urban municipalities.

Former area MLA Joe Anglin has announced plans to run in the Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre riding in the 2019 provincial election as a Freedom Conservative Party (FCP) candidate.

Sundre Search and Rescue has roots that go back to 1992, a time when search and rescue in Alberta was in its infancy. At that time there were only two other groups, the first formed in Rocky Mountain House and one in Athabasca in Central Alberta.